[BioC] cosine similarity

Kevin R. Coombes kevin.r.coombes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 16:27:50 CEST 2011


Check the "distanceMatrix" funciton in the "ClassDiscovery" package that 
is part of OOMPA.

R repository located at
     http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/OOMPA

Instructions for installation and some documentation at
     http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/Software/OOMPA

  -- Kevin

On 6/27/2011 7:24 AM, joe j wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am after a package that would calculate the uncentred correlation
> (or cosine similarity; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity)
> between pairs of observations. I know that bioconductor has packages
> that compute distance measures such as mahalanobis distance (the
> package mdqc does this). Is there any package that calculates cosine
> similarity?
>
> Regards,
> Joe.
>
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